Young star rebels against its parent cloud

Hubble?s Wide Field Camera 3 has captured this image of a giant cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by a bright young star. The image shows how violent the end stages of the star-formation process can be, with the young object shaking up its stellar nursery.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMC7E8XZVG_index_0.html

Time: 15. Dec. 2011

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Topics: cloud, its, star, young